10/15/10, "Female genital mutilation cannot be defended as part of Islam," UK Guardian, George Readings, "Ken Livingstone is wrong to describe Yusuf al-Qaradawi as a leading progressive in the Muslim world" Qaradawi issued a fatwa that female circumcision confers health benefits.
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"Bin Bayyah works for Yusuf al-Qaradawi."
6/26/2013, "White House Rolls Out Red Carpet For Terror-Supporting Cleric," IBD editorial
"In a new low for an administration that courts U.S. enemies, the White House has met secretly with the deputy of a Muslim cleric who has called for the killing of U.S. troops.
On June 13, of all things the National Security Council hosted Sheik Abdullah bin Bayyah for a West Wing chat, where the radical Islamist asked for more support for Hamas and Syrian "rebels," i.e. al-Qaida terrorists.
President Obama's envoy to the Muslim world, Rashad Hussain, and senior NSC aide Gayle Smith reportedly asked for the meeting as a learning session.
Well, here's what the administration apparently didn't learn — or did find out and still didn't care — when it vetted the sheik:
• Bin Bayyah works for Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who supports suicide bombings and issued a fatwa calling for attacks on U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Al-Qaradawi, who happens to be the spiritual leader of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, also once vowed to "conquer" America.
• His boss is considered so dangerous the State Department has banned him from entering the U.S. every year since 1999. Yet it apparently had no reservations granting a visa to his right-hand man. Why?
In 2004, bin Bayyah joined a radical pro-jihad group — the International Union of Muslim Scholars — which has supported Palestinian terrorists and called for the destruction of the state of Israel.
• Last year, the sheik participated in a conference in Mauritania sponsored by the Islamic Society of North America, which the Justice Department has blacklisted as a Hamas front group and named an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator.
• During his trip to Washington, bin Bayyah also visited the ADAMS Center, a northern Virginia mosque whose leaders' homes and businesses were raided by federal agents after 9/11 for terrorist connections.
It strains credulity that the White House was in the dark about this creep. His statements and videos and associations are readily available on the Internet.
Yet it rolled out the red carpet, legitimizing him and his group — "basically the equivalent of inviting al-Qaida to the White House," said Steve Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which exposed the secret White House meeting.
We join Emerson in calling for Congress to investigate not only why the Secret Service OK'd a known jihadist's White House visit, but also why Homeland Security signed off on his visa."
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10/15/2010, "Female genital mutilation cannot be defended as part of Islam," UK Guardian, George Readings
"Ken Livingstone is wrong to describe Yusuf al-Qaradawi as a leading progressive in the Muslim world."
"Should a man who supports female genital mutilation (FGM) really be considered a "leading progressive in the Muslim world"?...
The facts are this: Qaradawi, who has been described as the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader, issued a fatwa (hosted on the Muslim Brotherhood's Islam Online website) arguing that "circumcision [in this case cutting the labia minora, not the clitoris – what the World Health Organisation (WHO) refers to as Type IIa FGM] is better for a woman's health and it enhances her conjugal relation with her husband" and that, while it is "not obligatory", "whoever finds it serving the interest of his daughters should do it, and I personally support this under the current circumstances in the modern world"....
Not only is Type IIa FGM far from anatomically equivalent to male circumcision, there are absolutely no health benefits for its subject. According to WHO, if male circumcision is carried out professionally in hygienic conditions it "has significant health benefits that outweigh the very low risk of complications". photo, Livingston and Qaradawi in 2004, getty
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Comment: Even if congress does "investigate," nothing will happen.
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